that's the minimum.

Any advice I haven't asked for is bad advice.

Woo! That's where I wanted to start.

An hour plus into the podcast and we're just getting started.

That was the intro, y'all.

Alright, so any advice I haven't asked for is bad advice.

So let's talk about that. That's a rewording almost of what you said.

All advice is flawed advice, which I think is a great

maximum. I have that essay here.

I'll put a link to it in the show. I'm not going to read the whole thing, but it's about the advice epidemic.

And what Lisa's really saying is, hey, I didn't ask for your advice, but we are so caught up in giving it.

So the beginning of this essay starts out like this.

The urge to convince others is overwhelming.

On the surface, it appears virtuous to help, to instruct, to coach, to guide, to motivate,

giving advice gives the impression of nobility as if we have an obligation to

ameliorate the plight of the world, to assist people headed the wrong way, to point them in the right direction.

We are all middlemen in the middle of a self-help epidemic.

Just look at social media.

Overnight experts expousing advice.

You should wake up early. You shouldn't eat that. You should embrace chains.

You shouldn't get anxious. You should change your habits. You shouldn't wear socks with sandals.

So here's the thing.

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